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Why COVID-19 Is So Hard To Track

Published on 4/28/2020 at 7:12 PM

We sat down with Dr. Timothy Brewer, a professor of medicine and epidemiology at UCLA, and Dr. Larry Lutwick, a professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine and Sciences, to find out how COVID-19 attacks our bodies and why it’s so hard to track and control.

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